Professor Graham is Professor of English in Rhetoric and Professional Communication, and she teaches in the Women's Studies program. She is currently editor of the Journal of Business Communication, the flagship journal of the Association for Business Communication.

Office/Office Hours

• office: 445 Ross
• office hours: T/Th 10:00-11:00
• office phone: (515) 294-5203
• email: mgraham@iastate.edu

Interests

• business communication
• methodology
• narrative studies
• composition and pedagogy

Selected Publications

• Victorian America: A Family Record from the Heartland. Kirksville, MO: Truman State UP, 2003.
• "The Business of Living: Letters from a Nineteenth-Century Landlady." Narrative in Professional Communication, ed. Nancy Blyler and Jane Perkins. Stamford, Connecticut: Ablex, 1999. 181-193.
• “Imagine: Visual Communication in First-Year Composition.” with Katherine Hannigan and Paula Curran. Journal of Visual Literacy 25.1 (Spring 2005): 21-40.
• “A New Way of Doing Business: Articulating the Economics of Composition,” co-authored with Elizabeth Birmingham and Mark Zachry. Journal of Advanced Composition 19.4 (1999): 679-697.

Affiliations

• Association for Business Communication

Degrees

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MA and PhD
• Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, BA